SAN JOSE, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Immersion Corporation (Nasdaq:IMMR), a leading developer and licensor of
touch feedback technology, today announced that the Pantech Element is
the first publicly-available tablet that delivers a high-definition
haptic experience.

Launched in the US at the 2012 International Consumer Electronics Show
(CES), Pantech’s Element is an 8-inch, Android-based tab. Utilizing
Immersion’s piezo reference design, the tablet combines a single piezo
actuator from Samsung Electro-Mechanics Corp and the DRV-8662 haptic
piezo driver from Texas Instruments with Immersion’s TouchSense®
5000 control software and MOTIV™
Integrator tools to produce cutting-edge touch feedback effects
throughout the user interface and applications.

“Immersion’s TouchSense 5000 software takes advantage of the unique
capabilities of high-fidelity actuators to create responsive and
distinct haptic effects,” said Dennis Sheehan, Immersion’s vice
president of marketing. “By working with Pantech to customize the
Element with our MOTIV Integrator, we developed an intuitive and
engaging user experience. Users not only receive subtle and compelling
enhancements to their device navigation, but they also receive
enlivening haptic feedback for multi-media content.”

“As a technology leader and innovator, we are committed to delivering
the most advanced multi-media experiences to our consumers,” said Lim
Sung-jae, Director of Overseas Marketing at Pantech Headquarters.
“Immersion’s high definition touch feedback produces better, crisper
effects – unique to any other user experience in the market.”

In addition to utilizing Immersion’s MOTIV Integrator to waterfall
haptic effects throughout the Android UI and applications, the Element
is also the first commercial implementation of MOTIV Integrator’s Reverb
Module to automatically insert haptic feedback into applications by
translating audio data into effects. For users watching video or playing
games, the Reverb Module creates a more engaging multi-media experience
by seamlessly combining touch effects with audio content.

“The key to enhancing mobile content with haptics is to make UI and
applications feel like they look and like they sound,” explains Chris
Ullrich, Immersion’s vice president of user experience. “The unique
capabilities of high fidelity actuators allow us to create nuanced
effects that compliment, rather than overwhelm, the user experience.”

Pantech Co., Ltd. is one of Korea’s top three mobile handset makers.
Pantech has received wide-ranging industry recognition for its
innovative handset designs, and has also introduced a significant number
of breakthrough technologies in the mobile phone industry. Established
in 1991, Pantech collectively has approximately 3,500 employees and 6
regional sales offices worldwide.

Founded in 1993, Immersion (Nasdaq:IMMR) is the leading innovator in haptics
technology; the company's touch feedback solutions deliver a more
compelling sense of the digital world. Using Immersion's high-fidelity
haptic systems, partners can transform user experiences with unique and
customizable touch feedback effects; excite the senses in games, videos
and music; restore "mechanical" feel by providing intuitive and
unmistakable confirmation; improve safety by overcoming distractions
while driving or performing a medical procedure; and expand usability
when audio and visual feedback are ineffective. Immersion's TouchSense
technology provides haptics in mobile phone, automotive, gaming, medical
and consumer electronics products from world-class companies. With over
1,200 issued or pending patents in the U.S. and other countries,
Immersion helps bring the digital universe to life.

Forward-looking Statements

This press release contains "forward-looking statements" that involve
risks and uncertainties as well as assumptions that, if they never
materialize or prove incorrect, could cause the results of Immersion
Corporation and its consolidated subsidiaries to differ materially from
those expressed or implied by such forward-looking statements.

All statements, other than the statements of historical fact, are
statements that may be deemed forward-looking statements, including, but
not limited to, the statement that the key to enhancing mobile content
with haptics is to make UI and applications feel like they look and like
they sound, and statements regarding Immersion’s TouchSense 5000.

Immersion's actual results might differ materially from those stated or
implied by such forward-looking statements due to risks and
uncertainties associated with Immersion's business, which include, but
are not limited to, continued disruption in the markets for Immersion's
and its licensees' products due to the recent earthquake and tsunami in
Japan; delay in or failure to achieve commercial demand for Immersion's
or its licensees' products; a delay in or failure to achieve the
acceptance of force feedback as a critical user experience; and
unanticipated difficulties and challenges encountered in development
efforts and other factors. Many of these risks and uncertainties are
beyond the control of Immersion.

For a more detailed discussion of these factors, and other factors that
could cause actual results to vary materially, interested parties should
review the risk factors listed in Immersion's Annual Report on Form 10-K
for 2010 and its most recent Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q, which are on
file with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. The
forward-looking statements in this press release reflect Immersion's
beliefs and predictions as of the date of this release. Immersion
disclaims any obligation to update these forward-looking statements as a
result of financial, business, or any other developments occurring after
the date of this release.

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